Thursday, May 14, 2009

The Exchange Reviews - ESTEME

Esteme on Part 2 of The Exchange: "The new Exchange is bonkers. You have some really interesting styles in there. I'd love to contribute anything I can. I think the project really works when people make the outline their own or take certain ideas and focus on them. Whenever I tried to duplicate stuff line for line it came out less funky the elements that I liked were less likely to stick with me. Thats me though...I like to follow that dude poet's styles. Really loose and creative.No rules, still funky. Its also interesting to watch jurne, cecs and stae 2, I feel like those dudes are like at the same lunchroom table together and shit. like you got the dungeons and dragons kids, the mean girls the jocks and then you got those dudes making "style portfolios " I love it. Everyone is ill though, you chose a good variety of style and rep...oh, and those serval character things were crazy!"

The Exchange Book - Out Now!

THE EXCHANGE

The Exchange was started in 2005, with six participants from different areas of the United States. The group is currently made up of 35 members from 14 countries worldwide. The participants of The Exchange trade names and personal styles through sketches. This step is repeated until everyone in the group has traded outlines at least once.

The sketches are drawn, scanned, and traded via email. They are then printed out and executed by the receiving artist in their particular city.

The objective is to create an awareness of distinct lettering styles and trends. The goal is for all in the group to be able to become more versatile through attempts at graffiti styles out of their personal comfort zone. The artists in the group may learn new techniques and compositions from the exchange.